Five months ago, Deputy Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Gifty Oware-Mensah, who has been implicated in a recent exposé by The Fourth Estate, on affluent individuals who allegedly obtained scholarships meant for academically gifted but financially disadvantaged Ghanaians, was made a member of the Ghana Football Association's (GFA) Executive Council.

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The Ghana Football Association broke the news about the swearing-in ceremony of its new Executive Council on Monday, October 9, 2023.Members of the newly elected Executive Council were sworn into office for a four-year mandate.<img src="

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alt="" class="wp-image-61923"/>Present at the meeting were President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku,

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Mark Addo, Dr. Ransford Abbey, Kingsley Osei Bonsu, Frederick Acheampong, Nana Sarfo Oduro, Dr. Gifty Oware-Mensah, Eugene Nobel Amon Noel and Gideon Fosu.<img src="

alt="" class="wp-image-61927"/>The Members signed the Oath of Office and the Oath of Confidentially. James Kwesi Appiah was absent with permission of the GFA President.Gifty Oware-Mensah, aside from

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working at the NSS, owns Berry Ladies FC, a female football formerly known as Halifax Ladies FC, which is currently playing in Ghana’s women premier league.Per reports, Gifty who has denied receiving any scholarship, "obtained a government scholarship of GBP18,450 (GBP means Great British Pound) to study at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 2020 to pursue an MSc in Development Policy and Politics.

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"It is said that she received the scholarship three years after she started working for the Secretariat. According to the Fourth Estate, they reached out to her on January 19, 2024, and her response was “From 2019, my name has been Gifty Oware-Mensah. Let me call Kingsley [Agyemang] and get back. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Let me speak to them and get back to you.

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”The Fourth Estate further reported that "She later sent a text message that she was driving to Sunyani and would revert. Subsequent calls to her did not yield result."

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